Jon Victor
Staff Reporter
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Yale admits 6.27 percent of applicants

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions has accepted 1,972 students to the class of 2020 from a pool of 31,455 applicants, Yale’s largest-ever pool by more than 500 applications.

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Students abroad largely unaffected by attacks

Recent security concerns in Europe over threats of terrorism have had a limited impact on Yale students studying abroad this semester, though they have taken a heavy toll on students from countries that have been targeted over the past month.

Columbia sets student wage at $15 an hour

Student workers at Columbia will soon be earning more cash per hour than their Yale counterparts.

Access Yale raises $195 million for financial aid

With three months until the completion of Access Yale, a two-year fundraising initiative to raise money for financial aid, the University is $55 million shy of its $250 million goal.

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Number of alumni interviews sets record

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions offered more interviews to applicants this year than ever before.

Students hold financial aid speak-out

Student Financial Services employees watched from the windows as roughly 100 students congregated outside their building Thursday afternoon for a “speak-out,” in which student activists called yet again for the administration to eliminate the student effort, a yearly sum that students on financial aid must contribute to their educations.

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GUTS AND GLORY

Not all courses at Yale College are created equal.

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College term bill to rise 3.9 percent

Yale College’s term bill will rise 3.9 percent, with the cost of attendance increasing from $62,200 to $64,650, for the 2016–17 academic year.

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April Ruiz ’05 appointed new FSY dean

Calhoun College Dean April Ruiz ’05 will take on yet another leadership role this summer as dean of Freshman Scholars at Yale, a summer program held each year for incoming freshman from underresourced high schools.

New website bolsters financial aid protests

A website went live Monday morning that calls for the total elimination of the student effort portion of financial aid — the latest push in a yearslong battle between students and the administration to level the playing field for low-income students at Yale.

Ben Carson ’73 exits presidential race

Former Yale Corporation fellow Ben Carson ’73 dropped out of the presidential race on Friday after launching a campaign that spun out in the past few months, hitting its peak of support in the fall.